Following on from last week’s blog on the Storm Financial debacle I thought this week we could take a look at an issue that irks me and fellow independent traders and investors – the issue of the fee’s charged by fund managers and financial planners. As many of you are well aware these fee based…

It’s now been two weeks since SPA3 generated a Low Market Risk signal on the Australian market . For users of the SPA3 system this indicates they can increase their position sizing for new buy signals on individual stocks. However, there are absolutely no guarantees that the market will remain low risk, and may indeed…

2008 will long be remembered by traders and investors alike for a variety of reasons, both good and bad. For the educated and prepared ones 2008 either turned out relatively OK if they reduced the exposure of their long positions and went mainly to cash, or for a small percentage, absolutely wonderful if they were…

As this will be my last posting for 2008, I would like to express my thanks to all of you who have read and contributed to my blog. This was a new venture for me, and I am pleased to say it has been great fun and very successful. We have had in excess of…

One of the biggest issues we face as traders and investors is the issue of timing our entries into the market, or back into the market following a period of drawdown, as we have experienced of late. This is when the sustainability of our trading system will be fully put to the test, and when…